Best Friends, Till Marriage Do Us Part. John McKay "Crush" is the rare movie that penetrates the surface of women's camaraderie and looks unblinkingly at its darker side.

By Molly Haskell. [New York Times: Movies]

Since the first of the year, I have attended Yoga once a week. My Yoga teacher, Tymi, is a tiny lady with the strength of George Foreman and the boobs of Pamela Anderson. She must have studied Yoga just to stand up straight . . . yoga

[ kitShe]

«On Saturday, December 15, new signs were posted throughout Park Slope, Brooklyn. All sport utility vehicles within the area, then, were served with this parking ticket.»

[environy daily]

«To cover the costs of printing its 170-page energy plan last May, the Bush administration tapped into the Department of Energy's solar and renewable energy and energy conservation budgets.  Documents released under court order by the DOE on Monday night indicate that $135,615 of the renewables and conservation budget was spent to print 10,000 copies of the drill-mine-burn plan.» [ Grist ]

[environy daily]

«Another image from Italy. As I've spent some time looking at the Photo CD images, I'm concluding that the quality is significantly better than the Ofoto Picture CDs, even though the resolution of the web images is identical.

«I'm playing with the idea of buying a scanner, but it may be that Photo CD is still a viable option combined with the online printless developing of Ofoto.»

[On Deciding . . . Better log]

My objection to these retail photo-scanning services is that none offers full-frame scans. Scans of 35mm film are delivered cropped, to fit popular print sizes. Up to a quarter of the 35mm film frame is discarded. When I look through the viewfinder, I compose with the whole frame. —Editor

The Hoefler Type Foundry has added twelve new «Hoefler Titling» fonts to its Hoefler Text family of typefaces. Hoefler Text and Hoefler Text Ornaments have been distributed with Apple Computer's Macintosh Operating Systems for some years now. The Hoefler family is among the very best of the «Dutch»-style serif typefaces (e. g., Times, Baskerville, Bembo).